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From: nesScitur@husShmail.com (Ronin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.prettyboy
Subject: Re: Fred-the-Elf-Boy's Mom said ...
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:49:01 GMT
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:58:50 GMT, nesScitur@husShmail.com (Ronin) wrote:
> What is, is.
> What happens, happens.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> <snip>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Tiffany Aching: witch-in-training, age 11
> Miss Perspicacia Level: witch
Reference verification that should have preceded publication
reveals that "Perspicacia" is the given name of Miss Tick,
the witch who introduces Tiffany Aching to Miss Level; Miss
Level's given name is, apparently, related nowhere in the
chronicles.
My chagrined apologies to all.
> I did not tell you this before, to remind you that being
> Twelve is like sneaking into a theatre where the film's
> been running for an hour.
> You might perhaps, knowing more of the Dramatis Personae,
> reread the Scene.
> This extended quote is taken from < A Hatful of Sky >,
> by Terry Pratchett; best to start with its predecessor,
> < The Wee Free Men >.
> Ronin
> ns: I shall be grateful to anyone who can tell what became
> of Fred, the Elf Boy, who was rather sickly as of the end of
> the Twentieth Century; and of Nils, whom Fred befriended,
> who came home from school one day to find the front door
> locked and his mother gone, and later wrote, what do you
> *think* I did to survive?
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